Solstice Celebration – Tuesday, December 21 / Drumming at 5:45 p.m., readings at 6 p.m. We will gather by the fire circle outside the meeting room. Please bring your own lawn chair. Please adhere to the Covid Committee’s masking and distancing guidelines. If it is raining the event will be cancelled. Christmas Eve – Friday, December 24 / We will have an in-person Christmas Eve service at 7 p.m. on Friday, December 24. The service…
Infectious disease experts are now in the process of reevaluating Holiday advice given the discovery of a new, apparently highly contagious COVID variant , now being called Omicron. This variant has so far been isolated in Europe, Africa, and Japan and has prompted governments, including the U.S., to stop some international travel. The impact of this variant can’t be properly estimated for several weeks, and we won’t know the level of protection US vaccines provide from…
Do you have a surplus iPad or similar tablet capable of running Zoom? New Garden’s Tech Crew needs a tablet for use during Meeting for Worship. It needs to be capable of running Zoom and have an earphone port. It will be used to monitor the First Day Zoom webcast managed from the Meeting House. Members of the Tech Crew are currently using personal equipment to handle this task. The goal is to assemble the…
The Peace & Social Concerns Committee is extending the deadline for submitting one-page-proposals on how the committee should spend grant money in the “Broader Concerns” portion of our budget. We are awarding $250-$500 grants to projects and organizations that normally do not receive much financial support, and that reflect Quaker values, including our commitment to becoming an antiracist community. If you have questions or wish to submit a proposal, please contact Patricia Gutzwiller or Janet Inmon by…